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Bewick, Thomas & Bain, Iain (editor).
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford;
Date of publication: 1979
£28.00
SIGNED and DATED softcover, pp. xxviii, [2], 276. Bewick’s woodcuts and other illustrations throughout, with 4 double-sided monochrome photographic plates. Publisher’s cream card wraps with swan woodcut image. Spine sunned. Some modest underlining ...
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Darton, J. M.
Brave Boys Who Have Become Illustrious Men of Our Time Forming Bright Examples for Emulation ...
Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London;
Date of publication: 1890
£65.00
Seventh Edition. Octavo, pp. [2], vii, [1], 288. 3 plates by Harrison Weir; numerous head- and tail-piece decorations. Bound in superb full tree-calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to black label to spine, gilt ...
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Ackroyd, Peter.
Blake.
Publisher: Folio Society, London;
Date of publication: 2008
£35.00
FIRST THUS. Large octavo pp. 455. Illustrated including frontispiece self-portrait of Blake. Pictorial cloth with gilt & black titles and decoration, and pictorial endpapers; housed in plain black slipcase.
Head of spine very slightly creased otherwise clean and bright. Slipcase very slightly ...
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Besant, Walter.
Captain Cook.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1904
£35.00
Octavo, pp. vi, 191. Full polished tan calf, with 5 raised bands and gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartments; gilt border to boards, board edges and turn-ins with gilt armorial of Municipal ...
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Burnside, W. F. & Owen, A. S.
Short Lives of Great Men.
Publisher: Edward Arnold, London;
Date of publication: 1910
£30.00
Octavo, pp. viii, 296. Frontispiece and 7 further plates. Prize binding of full polished burgundy calf, with 5 raised bands, black label with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartments; gilt border to ...
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Stuart, Charles.
David Blythe, The Gypsy King: A Character Sketch.
Publisher: J. & J.H. Rutherford, Kelso;
Date of publication: 1883
£150.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [2] prospectus, 27, 7 catalogue. Original photograph of David Blythe aged 82, approx 9 cm x 6 cm, mounted to captioned leaf as frontispiece. Contemporary green cloth with printed red title ...
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Hill, Alexander.
Boilerman's Heid: A Biography of Trade Union Leader John Hill (1863- 1945).
Publisher: Privately printed, Ambleside;
Date of publication: 2000
£45.00
Reprint. Softcover quarto, pp. vi, 178. Limp cloth to spine and lower cover, with transparent front cover showing pictorial title page below. A littler annotation in pencil to title page, which is slightly toned; several ...
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[Anonymous].
The Biographical Magazine; Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation ...
Publisher: Printed for Effingham Wilson and Sherwood, Neely & Jones, London;
Date of publication: 1819
£150.00
FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo, pp. [198] & 1[98], printed recto only, with engraved roundel portrait to each entry (192 in total, 96 per volume). Contemporary maroon half calf with gilt titles and ruling to spine, decoration in blind to compartments, and marbled boards. Spines toned and boards lightly scuffed, with minor wear to edges and spine tips. Bookplate of the William Waples Collection (Masonic Lodge) to each front paste-down, and bold ownership inscription to ffep Vol I only; scattered light foxing, and annotation to lower margin of the entry for Sir Ralph Abercrombie to Vol I, otherwise contents clean. A Very Good matching set.
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Baker, William King & Richardson, Anne W. (editor)
John T. Dorland.
Publisher: Headley Brothers, London;
Date of publication: 1898
£30.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxiv, 433, [3] catalogue. 35 illustrations to plates, with tissue-guards, including portrait frontispiece. Publishers’ maroon reeded cloth, with bevelled boards, gilt titles to spine and ruing to spine and upper board ...
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Rintelen, Captain [Franz] von.
The Return of the Dark Invader.
Publisher: Lovat Dickson & Thompson Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1935
£65.00
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xiii, [1], 266. Publishers’ scarlet cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Upper corner of upper board very slightly bruised otherwise cover cloth clean and bright; endpapers ...
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Barea, Arturo.
Lorca: The Poet and His People.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of publication: 1944
£45.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 103, [1], printed on heavy grey paper. Publishers’ bright orange cloth with gilt titles to spine in light orange dust-jacket with red and black titles. Spine tips lightly rubbed and lower ...
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Williams, Lady Gertrude.
W. E. Williams : Educator Extraordinary.
Publisher: Penguin Collectors’ Society, London;
Date of publication: 2000
£25.00
FIRST EDITION: Limited Edition of 500 copies only. Octavo, pp. 148. Publishers’ blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped blue-and-white striped dust-jacket with portrait of W.E. to lower cover. Minor bruising to ...
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